School officials in Queens said she would have to be placed in the 10th grade, where she would be surrounded by classmates 14 and 15 years old.
Teachers also rated children on a scale of 1 5 to assess their reading, mathematics, intellectual functioning, and general motivation in relation to their classmates (1 lowest 10%, 2 next 20%, 3 mid 40%, 4 almost top 20%, 5 top 10%) (Gresham and Elliott 2007).
However, during a course students are more likely to turn to other students (63%) or classmates (57%) than instructors (47%).
Most gender-referred boys received at least one best friend nomination from male classmates (92.9%).
Children with CHDs rated QoL significantly lower than classmates (CHDs : median 78.3 (IQR 65.0 88.6); classmates: 88.0 (80.2–94.6)) and scored lower on physical (CHDs: 84.4; classmates: 93.8; difference 9.4 (7.8 to 10.9)) and psychosocial functioning subscales (CHDs: 76.7, classmates: 85.0; difference 8.3 (6.0 to 10.6)).
We received questionnaires from 479 classmates; 15 were excluded as incomplete/ineligible.
The participation rate for the child-mother dyads was 81.1% (evacuees: 82.9%, classmates: 79.3%).
The median age of the young adult evacuees, classmates, and population controls was 19, and approximately half was female (evacuees 52.5%, classmates 51.3%, population controls 51.4%).
Having average relationships with classmates (AOR=2.82, 95% CI 1.62 to 4.90) or poor relationships with classmates (AOR=1.60, 95% CI 1.14 to 2.25) was a risk factor for having depressive symptoms.
The kappa for self-rated health was somewhat smaller for evacuees (0.15) than classmates (0.22) and population controls (0.26).
Questionnaires were completed by 477 children with CHDs (56% boys; mean age 12.1 (SD 1.0) years) and 464 classmates (55%; 12.0 (SD 1.1) years).
